From The Telegraph….

What irks officials in Puntland most, though, is the failure of the multi-national force now patrolling the Gulf of Aden to take a robust approach to the problem. In a land where rule has seldom been by anything other the gun, few have been impressed by British and European officials’ talk of pirates having “human rights” that spare them from more traditional punishments like hanging.

The case in September, where a Danish warship dumped 10 arrested pirates back on a beach after deciding they lacked the jurisdiction to prosecute, caused widespread bemusement here. “Where is the deterrent for people to join the pirates, if they think they might not even get arrested?” asked Dr Abdirahman Bangah, Puntland’s acting fisheries minister.